The daughter of former England football star Paul Gascoigne has expressed her gratitude for messages of support after her father was found drunk outside his home and taken to hospital.

Gascoigne, 47, who has a long history of problems with alcohol, is believed to have been admitted to Poole hospital on Thursday.

Twitter users sent messages of sympathy and support to his daughter Bianca, a model and reality TV star, which she retweeted. The 27-year-old wrote: "Thank you for your kind words."

Gascoigne spoke publicly about his health problems in an ITV show last year, saying he hoped he didn't die because of alcoholism as he "won't get any sympathy". But he added: "I know probably in the future I am going to drink again."

He described overhearing a doctor say he might die, when he was being treated in the US. "[The doctor] said: 'I don't think this guy is going to make it,' and I sort of put my head up a little bit and I was like, tubes in my arms and an oxygen tank injecting round my heart and lungs and that.

Paul Gascoigne in Dorset. The former England footballer has been taken to hospital for his problems with alcohol. Photograph: Darren Jack/Rex Features

"I just come forward and I went: 'I don't want to die, I need to water the plants,' and that was it and then I woke up two weeks later."

On Friday the QPR boss Harry Redknapp said he had offered Gascoigne the chance to work at the club. He said: "I saw him about a month ago and said: 'I'll pick you up in the mornings, Gazza, come training with me and do a bit of work with the kids.' I'd love it if he could do that.

"I'd pick him up every morning at quarter to six at the top of his road. He can go and do some coaching with the kids and help Steve Gallen with the younger players. It's an open invitation to him. He's a great lad and it's sad to see what's happened to him and how he's looking at the moment.

"I see Gazza around and I love him. He's got a heart of gold. He's probably given his last penny away. That's how he is. But everybody has tried to help and the only person who can help him now has got to be himself."

This week it was reported that Gascoigne had signed to play in the Sunday football league for Abbey Windows FC.

Gascoigne, who is from Dunston, in Gateshead, rose to prominence first at Newcastle United before moving to Tottenham Hotspur. He was one of England's stars in the 1990 World Cup in Italy in which Bobby Robson's team reached the semi-finals, and later played for Lazio, Rangers and Middlesbrough.